• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades

Search results

Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. Rabbit Ears

    Pyrodex

    "bang" Never had much trouble with Pyrodex. However I have to be mindful of measuring it correctly according to my desired charge. Pitting and rusting?? Well, I use the old "kettle and tub" method to clean my firearms. It seems that everybody is becoming totally "anal retentive" on this...
  2. Rabbit Ears

    Rust stopping oil

    On a piping hot barrel.... just after being dried out and ready to oil; I use Rem-oil dampened piece of t-shirt and give all exposed surfaces a good rubbing until shiny. I also use a bit of blue (marine) grease + Rem-oil on my barrel swab and give my barrel a good swabbing too. Don't forget to...
  3. Rabbit Ears

    Cylinder cleaning???

    I use Remington gun oil, a well stocked cleaning kit, Ivory soap chips, and "everclear". Generally, I drop the "dirty" cylinder(s) into a pan of near-boiling soapy water and cook it in there for about 10 minutes, allowing stuck nipples to loosen a bit. Then I remove the stubborn nipples with a...
  4. Rabbit Ears

    New to cap & ball revolvers

    I guess I'm an "Old Salt" when it comes from decades of shooting and experimenting with various products. 1. Assume EVERY POWDER is corrosive. 2. Clean your weapon scrupulously after use. 3. lubricate weapon well with a fine gun oil. 4. What gramps always said "You don't know when you...
  5. Rabbit Ears

    Hickok and His .36 Navy Revolvers

    I personally, had BOTH 1851 navies (still do) and Remington .44. The Remington WAS a fussier revolver and had chain fire TWICE. If indeed, Mr. Hickok had experienced BOTH revolvers; I can certainly see him choose the Navies over Remington's. Well, do I own a 1858 Remington .44??? Nope!! I...
  6. Rabbit Ears

    Breech Plug

    I did remove my breech plug from my CVA Tower percussion rifled musket. With a brass-jawed VICE using brass-jawed (brass lined) adjustable wrench to remove the nipple plug *that locks the breech plug into place*. The breech plug came unscrewed with some persuasion. I then removed the...
  7. Rabbit Ears

    Your first muzzleloader?

    Mine was, and still is a 1861 Remington rifle. *retired* still shootable. I've a replica to do it's job now. There is a definite difference between the craftsmanship of an original and a very fine replica.
  8. Rabbit Ears

    Murphy's Oil Soap,

    MOS is a fine product, and works well. Changing the subject a bit here, I read that someone uses soaked felt wads. I do, and they work great for round ball (revolvers). If I do run out, Crisco works great to lube & cover the balls.
  9. Rabbit Ears

    Need to Change Patch Material?

    With my .58 cal Hopkins & Allen, I do use bed ticking and saliva lube my patches... if I'm in a hurry, of course. However, I use bacon tallow to lube my patches (I deal with my patches the night before with some saved tallow saved from several breakfasts before). I personally use Pyrodex RS...
  10. Rabbit Ears

    Murphy's Oil Soap,

    "Dutch, MAP, etc. is equal parts of MOS, household peroxide, and rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol. Not my formulation by a longshot, but it works well and quickly." I've been using the VERY SAME formula since the early 1990's...… with a kettle of boiling water to heat the barrel, dry, then oil...
  11. Rabbit Ears

    Who made the barrels for the tc hawken

    I have a real TC relic from the 1970s... the barrel shows MAVI. It is a real tack-driver :wink: It is my wife Sheila's rifle, and she sure loves it!!
Back
Top